Country Information for Returnees

IOM has launched a new web site called "IRRiCO: Enhanced and Integrated Approach regarding Information on Return and Reintegration in Countries of Origin." The aim of the site is to provide "information about return and reintegration possibilities...in the form of country sheets about health care, housing, education, employment, business opportunities, custom issues, and transportation." Currently, IOM regularly covers some 20 countries. Details about other countries are sourced from the Country of Return Information Project (no longer online), yet another project that supplies information "on territorial access, personal safety, reintegration opportunities, accommodation, employment, social security, health care, education, NGOs."

Other Resources for Specific Countries

• Returnee Information for Afghan Refugees (UNHCR) [access]
• Sources of information about conditions in Afghanistan for return (Refugee Council UK) [access]
• Sources of information about conditions in Iraq for return (Refugee Council UK) [access]

Other Resources Analyzing the Importance of Information for Returnees

• "Information and Repatriation: The Case of Mozambican Refugees in Malawi," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 1997 [abstract]
• "Information, counselling and legal assistance for returning IDPs," Forced Migration Review, no. 24, 2005 [text]
• "Repatriation from the European Union to Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Role of Information," in The End of the Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction (Bergahahn Books, 1999) [Google Books extract]
• Understanding Voluntary Return, Home Office Online Report 50/04 (Home Office, 2004) [text] (see esp. "Information and the Decision to Return," p. 21+)

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